Testimony of Menachem Szpigelman, born in Strzemieszyce, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, the Srodula Ghetto, Zabkowice, being hidden by non-Jews and other places

Testimony of Menachem Szpigelman, born in Strzemieszyce, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, the Srodula Ghetto, Zabkowice, being hidden by non-Jews and other places Life before the war; move to Sosnowiec, learns in a "heder". German occupation; anti-Jewish decrees; life in the cellar of the Hebrew high school building; turning in valuables; life in the Sosnowiec Ghetto including Jewish police activities; in hiding in a bunker; transfer to the Srodula Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; smuggled into the Zabkowice labor camp; camp life; his uncle's service in the Jewish police; his father's illness; in hiding in relatives' bunkers; killing of his father; escape from the camp; hidden by a non-Jewish family; liberation. His uncle is tried and acquitted; move to Katowice; life in Katowice including studies; joins Hashomer Hatzair; move to Warsaw; life in Warsaw including studies; marriage, 1958; death of his mother; aliya to Israel, 1964.